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gamashes

gamashes noun: high boots or buskins.

Noun

gamashes pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) High boots or buskins.
    • By it are boots of all sizes, buskins, gamashes, brodkins, gambadoes, shoes, pumps, slippers, and every cobbled ware wrought and made steadable for the use of man.1546, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux, The Third Book, Chapter LI
    • In the warmest corner of all, his face aglow with firelight and good liquor, sat Master Pothier dit Robin, with his gown tucked up to his waist as he toasted his legs and old gamashes in the genial warmth of a bright fire.1877, William Kirby, The Golden Dog
  2. (Scotland, plural, plural-only) Short spatterdashes, gaiters or jodhpurs, worn as an outer garment over other clothing.
    • Upon his legs he had gamashes,
      Which sogers ca' their spatterdashes1839, John Burness, Thrummy cap, a Tale

Forms of gamashes

alternative formgramashes

Origin of gamashes

French gamaches.

Questions about gamashes

What does gamashes mean?
Gamashes means high boots or buskins.
What part of speech is gamashes?
Gamashes is a noun.

Words near gamashes in the dictionary

  1. gamaruche
  2. gamaruched
  3. gamaruches
  4. gamaruching
  5. Gamas
  6. gamashes
  7. gamasid
  8. gamasids
  9. gamasoidosis
  10. Gamata
  11. gamay

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